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/ 5 September 2005
The City of Johannesburg and its electricity utility, City Power, are set to forward a formal complaint to the National Electricity Regulator (NER) over a damning report, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday. The NER found City Power’s supply infrastructure to be in a serious state of disrepair.
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/ 5 September 2005
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has been effectively cleared by two commissioners of bias and wrongdoing over the Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka ”booing” incident — because it did not get the footage from the freelance cameraman. The commissioners acknowledged: ”This issue may require further probing.”
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/ 5 September 2005
The high-profile trial of Zimbabwe’s former finance minister Chris Kuruneri for allegedly smuggling money abroad resumed on Monday with his lawyers asking for the judge to be changed. ”The view of the public is that there has been bias in this trial and the court cannot ignore this,” Kuruneri’s lawyer said.
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/ 5 September 2005
Fred Joerger, one of Disneyland’s original model makers who crafted miniature versions of the park’s Sleeping Beauty Castle and other attractions, has died. He was 91. Walt Disney hired Joerger in 1953 as one of his first three model makers. They invented the profession that became known as ”imagineering” .
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/ 5 September 2005
McLaren-Mercedes’s Juan Pablo Montoya admitted that concerns over the tyres at the Italian Grand Prix had been playing on his mind as he took victory at Monza. Teammate Kimi Raikkonen was fighting his way through the field when he was called into the pits to change a heavily blistered rear tyre.
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/ 5 September 2005
South African junior shot-put champion Marli Knoetze was one of South Africa’s stars on the final day of the African Junior Athletics Championships held in the Rades Stadium, Tunis, on Sunday. South African athletes won 25 medals at the championships, 10 more than Kenya, with Sudan third on the list with 13.
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/ 5 September 2005
Medical-aid scheme payments to brokers increased by 21% last year to R704-million without any perceptible increase in the number of new members joining, the Medical Schemes Council said on Monday. Council head Patrick Masobe was speaking at the release of an annual report into medical-aid schemes.
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/ 5 September 2005
Oil prices fell on Monday after industrialised nations agreed to release 60-million barrels of crude from their strategic stockpiles to help avert a severe fuel shortage in the United States. The US refinery system is struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
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/ 5 September 2005
Nazi German saboteurs plotted unsuccessfully during World War II to ship explosives into Britain hidden in bars of chocolate and other products as well as in dead rats, archivists said on Monday. British intelligence files released into the public domain at the National Archives in the last six months provided details of the plots accompanied by diagrams.
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/ 5 September 2005
Kenya will hold its first-ever nationwide referendum on November 21 when voters cast ballots on a new Constitution that has already deeply split the East African nation, officials said on Monday. On that date, 11,8-million voters will be asked to accept or reject a draft Constitution containing sweeping changes to Kenya’s founding document.